Fw: [HPforGrownups] Re: Fred and George's wager on the Quidditch World Cup

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No: HPFGUIDX 36041

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jedi Knight Jo" <jloveys at z...> wrote:
> Hi, I just joined so I thought I'd better find something to 
comment on.
> 
> >>I just have to add my agreement to the bunch. There was no 
point 
> spread, no "grey area" that they could hope to fit into. They 
called 
> the end of the match with prescient accuracy. IMHO, it has to be 
more 
> than a coincidence.<<
> 
> I always just thought that as avid Quidditch fans, Fred and 
George knew what they were talking about because they'd seen 
the teams or read results.  The Irish team are clearly better 
overall than the Bulgarians, but the Bulgarians have the better 
seeker in Krum..
> --Jo

I don't think f&G had any inside information that wouldn't have 
been available to any avid Quidditch fans.  They understood the 
Irish team and Krum well enough to know that that ending was 
possible even if wasn't probably.  IIRC, it was still a long shot.  
What F&G knew for sure was that there meager life savings were 
nowhere near enough to start a business and even betting on 
the most likely outcome wouldn't have resulted in enough.  It was 
a "save the orphanage" scenario where they needed a certain 
large amount of money and a lessor amount was no better than 
no money at all, so they bet according to their needs.
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